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作者：Casciaro, Tiziana; Barsade, Sigal G.; Edmondson, Amy C.; Gibson, Cristina B.; Krackhardt, David; Labianca, Giuseppe (Joe)
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University; University of Western Australia; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Kentucky
摘要：Although multiple disciplines have been applied to the study of organizations, organizational research is rarely interdisciplinary in the sense of two or more disciplines being linked in the joint analysis of organizational phenomena. The articles in this special issue illustrate the kinds of insights that can be gained by moving from a purely disciplinary perspective on organizational behavior to an interdisciplinary perspective that considers network phenomena and psychological phenomena as ...
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作者：Schilling, Melissa A.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：In the early to mid-1990s, technology alliances suddenly surged to unprecedented levels-roughly 300% growth per year from 1990 to 1995-and then declined just as precipitously. This massive increase in alliance activity caused the crystallization of a giant component in the global technology network that connected a large portion of the world's firms, government labs, universities, and other organizations. However, when alliance activity declined, the component disintegrated. What caused this s...
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作者：Slawinski, Natalie; Bansal, Pratima
作者单位：Memorial University Newfoundland; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：This inductive study of five firms in Alberta's oil sands examines how organizations attend to the intertemporal tensions between the short term and long term that are inherent in business sustainability. Grounding our insights in organizational responses to the climate change issue, we find that firms that juxtapose the short term and long term also confront the tension between business and society. These firms are, therefore, more likely to recognize the complexity of climate change and the ...
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作者：Lee, Jongkuk; Hoetker, Glenn; Qualls, William
作者单位：Ewha Womans University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Prior work has mapped the transaction at the heart of an alliance to the risks of opportunism inherent in that alliance and, ultimately, to how the alliance is structured and governed. We extend this approach by noting that the parties in an alliance do not necessarily perceive the same hazards as predominant and thus may have different preferences for how the alliance is structured. Nevertheless, it is in each party's best interest to find a structure that protects its interests, while also a...
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作者：Furr, Nathan R.; Snow, Daniel C.
作者单位：Brigham Young University
摘要：During technological discontinuities, incumbents frequently develop hybrids of competing technical generations. Although some prior work implies that such intergenerational hybrids may be the result of organizational dysfunction, we propose that in some cases hybrids may be sophisticated learning tools that shape organizational adaptation to a technological discontinuity. In this paper, we suggest two mechanisms through which intergenerational hybrids may affect organizational adaptation: spil...
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作者：Williams, Michele; Polman, Evan
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This paper investigates how professional workers' willingness to act with interpersonal sensitivity is influenced by the gender and power of their interaction partners. We call into question the idea that mixed-gender interactions involve more interpersonal sensitivity than all-male interactions primarily because women demonstrate more interpersonal sensitivity than do men. Rather, we argue that the social category women can evoke more sensitive behavior from others such that men as well as wo...
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作者：DeRue, D. Scott; Nahrgang, Jennifer D.; Ashford, Susan J.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We develop and test a multilevel theory explaining how patterns of interpersonal perceptions explain the emergence of informal leadership structures in groups. At the group level, we hypothesize that the network pattern of competence and warmth perceptions among group members determines the amount of leadership exhibited (leadership structure density) and the degree to which the emergent leadership structure is centralized or shared (leadership structure centralization). We then identify two i...
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作者：Dobrajska, Magdalena; Billinger, Stephan; Karim, Samina
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Southern Denmark; Boston University
摘要：We investigate trade-offs associated with delegating authority over multiple interrelated decisions in a complex task structure. The empirical setting is a business process of a global Fortune 50 firm. The firm decentralized its organization and redefined decision authority across organizational hierarchies between 2008 and 2011. We employ regression analysis of microlevel data on the allocation of decision authority between formal and real authority, and further on the organization design of ...
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作者：Piazza, Alessandro; Perretti, Fabrizio
作者单位：Columbia University; Bocconi University
摘要：How do organizations react to stakeholder disapproval of a category to which they belong? In this paper, we draw on the categorization, stigma, and identity literatures in building a theory to predict whether firms that are involved in stigmatized activities will choose to reduce or terminate their involvement in them, as opposed to resorting to less drastic measures such as defensive practice adoption or impression management techniques. Conceptualizing groups of organizations involved in suc...
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作者：Yang, Jing Yu; Li, Jiatao; Delios, Andrew
作者单位：University of Sydney; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; National University of Singapore
摘要：We examine the conditions that can facilitate or hinder the effectiveness with which a new entrant learns from the failures of prior entrants by analyzing the experiences of 822 Japanese subsidiaries in China founded between 1979 and 2000. Our conceptual arguments and empirical findings demonstrate that learning from the failure experiences of prior entrants increases a new entrant's survival chances when entering China. Further, we find that the value of this learning is less effective when t...
